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Commercial Real Estate: Core ESG and Climate change 7 June 2023 – 2.00 pm (1 hour) ESG (environmental, social, governance) is creating new risks and opportunities for all sectors of our economy, including commercial property and law. We now have ESG ratings, ESG funds, ESG laws and ESG lawyers. Law firms are increasingly having to […]

Navigating climate change: What solicitors need to know

The legal landscape is undergoing a major shift as climate change becomes a central concern. In April, the Law Society issued guidance on how climate change impacts solicitors and their clients. This guidance highlights the wide-ranging effects of climate-related risks on legal practice and emphasises the need for solicitors to broaden their scope of consideration. […]

Digital verification and anti-money laundering tool downloaded by 1m+ users

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Thirdfort, a client-risk management platform combining Know Your Client (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Source-of-Funds (SoF) verification, has been downloaded by more than one million users since its launch four years ago, or around 2.5% of all adult smartphone users in the UK.*The fast growing app has seen a notable growth in demand, fuelled by […]

Legaltech chief highlights need to speed up property transactions

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David Kern, CEO at Virtual Signature-ID explained the need to speed up property transactions: Conveyancers encounter several hurdles in orchestrating a more integrated process, the most notable being the lack of substantial automation within their Practice Management Systems (PMS) and Document Management Systems (DMS). The prevailing PMS and DMS utilised by most firms lack an […]

Future plans for Hoowla and our clients

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As we approach the end of our anniversary month, we’ve set out plans for the next 10 years of Hoowla. If you’re new to the Hoowla story, starting in 2013, Hoowla quickly became a leading user-friendly case management software provider, simplifying the legal process for all involved. Initially focused on conveyancing, we developed customisable workflows, […]

Diary of a high street conveyancer: 30th May 2023

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I am going to write about something I have written about many times before, but I make no apology for writing about this again: costs and fees. I was asked to provide some figures for a client buying a property. When I called her to check if the figures were acceptable to her, she told […]

The Conveyancing Climate Change Debate

Today's Conveyancer Podcast

Love it or loathe it, climate change appears to be here to stay following the release of guidance from The Law Society on the role of legal services in providing consumers with information. And it is the subject of this latest Today’s Conveyancer podcast as host David Opie is joined by Groundsure CEO Dan Montagnani, […]